Re: [Trisquel-users] TALOS II Secure Workstation, from Raptor Engineering

[robert . kirkpatrick]

I think this is actually very exciting news.  This is a high-power system in  
which the mainboard and CPU will run with a full stack of libre software and  
firmware, and the price is much more reasonable than that of the original  
TALOS.  Granted, it's still above many consumers' price points, but there are  
understandable reasons for that.  For one, as mentioned upthread, Raptor  
doesn't have the sales volume that other manufacturers do.  For another, it  
doesn't seem like Raptor intends for it to be a consumer product in the first  
place.  Descriptors like "enterprise" and "workstation" imply that it's meant  
for business, not personal use (and for that matter, IBM's not shooting for  
the consumer price point with their CPU, either--they strategically exited  
the consumer market in the mid-2000s).